Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 628]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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agree to the making of a record in a briefer form. (6) Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations. Following the conclusion of the hearing the Committee shall promptly make its explicit findings of fact on each charge, its conclusions, and its recommendations. Reasonable opportunity shall be given to each party to file a written statement setting forth objections to these findings, conclusions, and recommendations and setting forth the grounds for such objections. A copy of one party's objections shall be given to the other party. The originals of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations, and of the hearing shall be forwarded to the President and copies shall be promptly transmitted to the appointee. If ultimately the appointee requests a hearing before the Board of Trustees, the originals or copies of statement of charges filed by the President or on his authority with the Clerk or Secretary of the Senate, the request for a hearing, the answer to the statement of charges, the notice of the time and place of hearing, the transcript or briefer record of the hearing, any exhibits, received in evidence, the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Committee, and any objections to such findings, conclusions, and recommendations, shall constitute the record before the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure to be submitted to the Board. The record shall be available to the Board of Trustees, to counsel for the appointee, and to counsel for the University, but shall not be available to other persons prior to the hearing before the Board. If the Committee recommends that charges be dropped and the President concurs, the case shall be considered closed. (7) Hearing by Board of Trustees. Within 30 days after transmittal of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, or, if the appointee filed no request for a hearing before that Committee, within fifteen days after the expiration of the period specified in paragraph (3) for the filing of such a request, the President may cause the charges to be filed with the Secretary of the Board of Trustees along with the findings, conclusions, and recommendations, if any, of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the record of the hearing before the Committee, if one